#Domain name verification

[robpegoraro]

No checkmark, no domain name, no problem: other ways to verify your Bluesky self

Please, please, please: Don't leave potential followers on Bluesky guessing about whether that's really you.

As the ongoing flight from Twitter has continued, it’s been heartening to see so many familiar names show up on Bluesky, the Twitter alternative that comes closest to replicating what I liked about Twitter when it wasn’t run by a shitposting billionaire with a toxic social-media diet and a victimhood complex. At least, I think those are familiar names. But because Bluesky’s only equivalent of…

[genshin-impact-updates]

Genshin Impact Account Security Information

Recently, we have received feedback from Travelers through community and customer service channels that some Travelers have logged in to phishing sites from unknown sources, resulting in problems such as unauthorized logins and account theft. We take all feedback of this nature extremely seriously and will promptly investigate and follow up on each case based on the information provided by Travelers.

In the process of checking accounts with security risks, we found that many of these accounts have logged in to third-party websites and applications from unknown sources. While we continue to crack down on illegal phishing websites and enhance account security through technical means, we hope that Travelers:

1. Do not rely on information from unofficial platforms or log on to pages from unknown sources, such as: pages for topping up Primogems, selling accounts, etc.

2. Do not use external or third-party plug-ins.

3. Do not provide sensitive security information such as account passwords, SMS, and email verification codes to others. Do not share your account with others.

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[mariacallous]

Like a venomous puss moth emerging from its hard cocoon, the social network formerly known as Twitter has fully metamorphosed into X.com.

Various elements of Twitter had already embraced the rebranding, and the company has been using X.com links since early April. But now the domain has flipped over entirely, marking the end of a tumultuous transition period—and erasing the last vestiges of the bird app.

“We are letting you know that we are changing our URL, but your privacy and data protection settings remain the same,” reads a message at the bottom of the X login and home pages.

The switchover has been a long time coming. X owner Elon Musk announced the shift from Twitter to X last July, a few months after he officially acquired the company. But the billionaire has for decades harbored a dream of creating an “everything app” by that name, and Twitter is his vessel.

“The Twitter name made sense when it was just 140-character messages going back and forth—like birds tweeting—but now you can post almost anything, including several hours of video,” Musk wrote on the newly redubbed X last summer. “In the months to come, we will add comprehensive communications and the ability to conduct your entire financial world. The Twitter name does not make sense in that context, so we must bid adieu to the bird.”

Twitter under Musk has indeed added video and voice calls to its roster of features. It has also replatformed conspiracy theorists like Alex Jones, fostered a welcoming environment for porn spam accounts, made an absolute hash out of verification, introduced a monetization system that encourages rampant engagement farming, gutted its trust and safety team, allowed a surge in hate speech on the platform, designated NPR as “US state-affiliated media,” removed news headlines entirely and then reintroduced them in a weird spot, kneecapped a bunch of fun bots and third-party apps by introducing wildly expensive API changes while giving blue-check verification to AI-generated chum, pivoted to video, introduced an AI model that will help you do crimes, and overseen a decline in usage of more than 20 percent in the US, according to app analytics firm SensorTower.

The “entire financial world” part remains a work in progress.

A sentimentalist may bemoan the death of Twitter, which for all its faults always had a capacity to delight and surprise. But remember that this transformation was inevitable. Musk first owned X.com in 1999, when he cofounded an online bank by that name; it would eventually merge with a competitor and become PayPal. He bought X.com back from PayPal in 2017, tweeting that it had “great sentimental value.” And he has seen Twitter as an opportunity to create X on Earth since before the acquisition was even completed, according to Musk biographer Walter Isaacson.

“In the days leading up to his takeover of Twitter at the end of October 2022, Musk’s moods fluctuated wildly,” Isaacson wrote in Elon Musk. “He said that he would turn it into the combination of financial platform and social network he had envisioned 24 years earlier for X.com, and he added that he planned to rebrand it with that name, which he loved.”

To put an even finer point on it, Musk’s tweet today announcing that “all core systems are now on X.com” featured the logo of the company he founded 25 years ago.

While X may never become the everything app of Musk’s dreams, it’s undeniably and indelibly a different place than the one he bought. Which in some ways makes this final transition all the more palatable. Whatever Elon Musk’s platform has become, it’s certainly not Twitter. Call it whatever you want.

[coolgreatwebsite]

Happy 1 Million Views to the Video That Broke Me

This is a repost of something I wrote over on my Cohost, but I figured a year later it should also probably live on the domain I pay money to have. Better late than never!

This is the most successful piece of content I have ever created. At one million views it is the thing I've made that people have seen the most. It is the thing that the most people have seen my name attached to. And it's total trash.

It's 2017 and we're a week or so out from the release of Sonic Mania, a game that I'm, at that point, pretty damn excited for. A kindly poster from the Something Awful forums (that I have known from many forums previous) poses a challenge: be the first to beat his short kaizo Sonic the Hedgehog 2 ROM hack and he'll gift you a copy of Sonic Mania on Steam when it comes out.

I was already getting the game on PS4 but I figured whatever, everyone else seems to be having trouble with it, I'm bored, I got nothing better to do, I'll give it a shot. I load up KEGA Fusion, start a low bitrate and resolution OBS recording because it'll probably take a few hours and who cares it's a forum contest verification video, and get to work. A hour and half-ish goes by and I'm finished with the hack. I upload the video to YouTube, post it in the thread, win my free copy of Sonic Mania, and that's the end of the story. Thanks for reading.

Except of course it's not the end of the story. A few months after I got done thoroughly enjoying Sonic Mania, I realized that I'd been getting a weird amount of new subscriber emails from YouTube. I decided to actually look at my metrics and noticed a uh, highly localized spike of activity. Give you one guess on which video (hint: it's the one this post is about). "The Algorithm" had suddenly taken it and was running away with it at lightning speed.

In the timespan between posting the video and this spike, YouTube had announced they were drastically raising the bar on the metrics you needed to hit to have your channel monetized. I was by no means a large YouTuber at the time, but I was meeting the old requirements for monetization just fine. I wasn't anywhere near meeting the new requirements until now and this video was blowing the hell up for whatever reason, so I decided to do what any good opportunist would do and made it an unwatchable experience.

I set the ad frequency on that thing to the maximum that it'd let me. I forget exactly how frequent that was but it was something absurd like an ad every 5 minutes. Maybe even more than that. I figured I'd either get rich or maybe it would make people stop watching and leaving the worst comments in the world. Seriously the comments on this thing are their own nightmare, a bizarre soup of people ascribing meaning to nothing, trying to suss out emotions where there are none, saying complete gibberish, I'd need an entire second post to unpack whatever the hell is going on there.

Well, I wouldn't quite say I got rich. The money you get off what most people would conventionally call a popular YouTube video is just not much in the grand scheme of things. But holy shit they didn't stop watching. If anything they were watching more. Why didn't they stop watching? This video was less than nothing. It was an ordeal to watch all the way through. Why were they doing this? Why was the algorithm showing this to everyone? Why this and not one of the things I put effort into or something that was at least meant to be entertaining at all? I didn't have the answers and I still don't.

Before this I personally wasn't lamenting the possibility of losing monetization on my channel as up until this point I had made around $40 total on YouTube in the decade or so I'd had a channel. But I had been spending a lot that time watching friends with channels around the size of mine who were actively hustling to, and unfortunately failing to, meet the new hurdle. They were putting out some really good shit. Way better than my stuff, frankly. And here I was getting launched to the finish line by... a throwaway, blurry, hour and a half long, commentary-free, save state abusing playthrough of a crummy Sonic ROM hack? That I had made as a means to a completely separate end?? That got promoted by a computer program for seemingly no reason???

It felt shitty. One of the friends I mentioned in that last paragraph was my longtime friend Fotts who was in the middle of getting their (sadly now dormant) series TAS Force off the ground. They were constantly tweeting about the ordeal of trying to meet the new monetization requirements and it was a damn shame because they were putting in a ton of effort and it was great. The kind of thing I'd watch even if I wasn't friends with anyone on it. It was a million times funnier than anything I was doing, and the complete opposite of my shitty contest video. If there was any justice in this world the views I was getting on this dumpster fire would be going to them. But as it turns out, there is no justice online.

I recalled a conversation I had with them a few years back while they, I, and a group of about 7 or so other friends were all wandering around an Orlando Wal-Mart wearing identical black t-shirts that read "MARVEL CAN SUCK MY COCK" in big block letters (long story). They had actually kind of gone through this sort of thing before. See, they're the uploader and one of the voices of this video you may or may not have seen with 6.5+ million views on it.

They lamented to me many of the laments I was currently lamenting. "This was just a stupid throwaway thing", "why is this so much more popular than the stuff I put effort into", "it's just me making PaRappa the Rapper say the word 'Chinese' over and over". Ok maybe that last one was a bit more specific to them. Anyway, I responded with (and I admit a lot of the reason I felt this way was because I thought and still think the video is funny) something along the lines of "you can't pick what hits for people, it might have been throwaway but at the end of the day you posted it because you thought it was at least a little bit funny, try and focus on the fact that you have a popular video at all rather than the fact it's not one of the videos you're particularly proud of".

But yeah damn turns out that advice is easier said than done when it happens to you, and it's even harder done when it happens to a factually not entertaining video. One you could have uploaded as unlisted and achieved your intended result with. The runaway success of this thing genuinely broke me on this whole "Internet" deal.

I should stress I mean this in a good way. I realized that it's not so much that you can't pick what hits for people, it's that you physically cannot pick what gets put in front of people. The people cannot pick what hits for them. A computer does. You can try and promote and affect what gets seen in your own small sphere of influence, but ultimately we are, on YouTube and on all of our social platforms, at the mercy of a black box of computer programs that I'm not even sure the people who created them understand anymore. I'd obviously known this on some level prior to this video existing, but bearing witness to it all happening firsthand to this video in particular was another thing entirely. Anything prior that I had achieved marginally similar success with (there were a couple that had broken 100k) was meant to be entertaining. It was meant for people to watch and go "I liked that", not for one guy on a forum to see and go "good work solving my maze Superman". I could classify the success as "neat, people liked that one" in my brain. This defied classification.

The only logical conclusion was that it truly didn't matter what I uploaded. It's all decided by a random machine picking things at random to serve random amounts of people, and the people click on it and watch it simply because it is there. You can poke at the machine, prod at the machine, try to guess what the machine likes, try to iterate on something the machine has previously demonstrated that it likes. It's all an effort to get the machine to put it in front of the people who will click it because it is there. That's what all the bigger capital-C Content Creators do. From the high level stuff of "what kind of things do I upload" to the low level minutia of "how many curse words can I say in the first minute", making it Big On Line in any capacity is about trying to appease an unknowable mechanical entity and nothing else. It's either that or you're "old money" in a sense, established before this all became the case.

And again, the bigger names do this. Entire companies do this. If I were "smart" I would have pivoted my entire YouTube channel to nothing but hour and a half long commentary-free bullshit hard ROM hack playthroughs. Maybe another one would hit like this did. But for the life of me I could not and cannot think of anything more soul crushing.

I wouldn't say I had aspirations to be a Big Time YouTube Man, but at that time I would have maybe liked to be a Moderate Size YouTube Man. Or a moderate size Twitch man. Someone who had people watching but was still able to have fun with it and do his own thing. This newfound realization that it was truly a random lottery, even beyond the random lottery that most of human life is, that becoming any size bigger than Small Time was literally decided by an actual factual random number generator, freed me from the desire to do anything that I didn't want to do. If actively chasing success on these modern, algorithmically-driven platforms, actively going after "Kaizo Sonic 2 Full Run" numbers, meant putting aside the things I like and reinventing myself and the things I do down to the minute details in order to appease a literal ghost beyond anyone's understanding or control that changes what it's looking for on a whim, then I did not want to do that. I did not want to keep a timer for when I could talk normal, I did not want to announce my streams on Twitter with the link in a separate reply one day, in an embedded image the next, and in my display name the next. If there is absolutely one thing I do not want to do in my life, it's dance for a robot.

But the most freeing thing about realizing this is that it also meant if I just kept doing stuff I liked, maybe, someday, I could get lucky enough to where the unknowable internet robot would push that in front of a million or so people. In the grand scheme of things it's about an equal chance of that happening on something I like and am proud of versus something I made in a desperate cloying attempt to placate an algorithm.

Anyway damn this got long and rambly sorry about that lol. This was initially meant to just be a little toast to the 5 year-ish anniversary of me fully becoming an Internet nihilist. Remember folks, it's meaningless to chase success in an algorithm dominated landscape. In the words of a certain extremely Normal-type man, "real life isn't all just being true to yourself", but I reject the notion that the Internet is not or should not be, in spite of the legion of ghouls and freaks at the top of the chain actively trying to make that the case every day.

Be true to yourself. Do what you love, make what you love, post what you love, and maybe if you're lucky a computer somewhere will decide it's your turn, because that's the single deciding factor in all of this. In the mean time, you'll end up slowly and naturally surrounding yourself with cool people who get you, if only a little bit. At least that's what's happened for me so far. I've been pretty alright with it.

[bdsmsub67]

[leftmusing]

we really need to start looking at more comprehensive ways to ensure thorough internet safety.

these days, i find myself desensitised and used to seeing things that are downright worrying, scary, and developmentally stunted because of how normal it's become for social media companies to value profit and revenue over the safety of minors online. more and more, i see younger and younger teenagers posting drastically inappropriate content to public forums — lists of vulnerabilities, real names, sexual jokes, a comprehensive breakdown of identities. it's somehow become normal for people to link a carrd or pin a post listing diagnoses/self diagnoses, trauma, endless terms of identification, dni lists longer than the constitution, etc. it's accepted behaviour, even encouraged by most adults online, and to be frank, it's perturbing how much of a lack of internet safety awareness and digital footprint is taught to under 18s now.

this has been a pretty drastic change sociopolitically in internet spaces, quickly developing in less than 10 years. and it's not the kids' fault — not by any means. they're taught that listing intimate and personal details about themselves on unprotected public domain is somehow a rite of passage within queer spaces, that they need to prove something about their sickness, that they need to have sickness if they don't already to be treated with attention and respect (which is something all children want and all children deserve. just not this sort of attention).

as queer adults, we're doing nothing. we're taking no responsibility to protect the trans kids we claim to with pastel gifs and trending hashtags. there's no differentiation between adult spaces and young people's spaces, no clear divide between content that's appropriate and content that isn't. it's accepted and encouraged that children use websites with minimal safety settings and guidelines that have no foolproof age verification process, and nobody seems to blink an eye.

i remember being 14/15 on social media very clearly. it's still recent history. but comparing the privacy walls, age verification blocks and legitimate pop ups requiring proof of ID before continuing onto inappropriate content to what there is (or rather, what there isn't) nowadays, is frankly scary.

one of the most troubling things for me is how these conversations are often reduced to discourse between adults and children which is wildly and unwholesomely counterproductive. have we all forgotten concepts of power imbalance that we practise with the children in our real day to day lives? because when i see topics like this online, it's never anything more than people beefing about "minors DNI" or "18+ DNI" or "you're a groomer for following me without realising i'm 16" or "where are your mommy and daddy".

frankly, we should all be ashamed of ourselves. we should be ashamed of ourselves for generationally starting the trend of hypervigilantly self pathologising, spreading genuine misinformation in pursuit of appearing morally puritanical, encouraging the conclusions that 13 year olds are drawing about having personality disorders, and exacerbating inattentive personality traits and proceeding to tell children who are victims to the algorithmic machine that they must have ADHD.

we need to do better. we need to show up for questioning and queer teens online. we need to open a dialogue about online spaces and age specific forums/websites that honour the humanity and boundaries of adult and minor on equal levelling.

because we're making the younger half of our generation sick with our own sickness. the difference is, we're old enough to know and do better — they're not.

[poppyandzena]

That AI claim is super easy to fact check too. There are dozens of free tools that you can use to detect AI generated papers. Why in the world wouldn’t Saige/Poppy run the emails through Turnitin before blindly believing an anon? The sock puppet email address is super easy to fact check too. There are only a few email services that don’t require 2fa verification. It would be easy to just google the domain the names to see if they’re from one of them.

And anyone with two eyes would understand why sexymegamilkermistress097391@hotmail.com wouldn't have a legitimate complaint to offer to Poppy's clinic compared to her ex, the guest she sexually harassed, and possible clients and other victims.

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[ainyan]

FFXIVWrite Day #13 - Check

check

verb (used without object)

to make an inquiry, investigation, etc., such as for verification (often followed by up, into, etc.)

to make a sudden stop; pause

Chess. to make a move that puts the opponent's king under direct attack.

“Check.”

The dark, amorphous cloud across the board paused in its seething, stilling for one brief moment before it began to churn once more. It studied the board to determine the threat to its obsidian king. There, sitting diagonal, was a single, battered white pawn. An easy kill - but it could see the threat from the pair of knights, each positioned to strike should it dare to take the offered sacrifice. And escape was not an option; their queen was stationed nearby, cutting off the last open space.

Emet-Selch stood straight and proud, golden eyes gleaming fierce as he held his staff threateningly before him. “It's over, Hermes. In the name of the Convocation, I hereby take Meteion into custody. And setting aside the matter of your nomination, you will come with us, too. We require your knowledge to assess and resolve the situation.” To either side, they stood - Hythlodaeus, their bow raised, their rose eyes sorrowing as they trained their drawn arrow upon Hermes’ breast. Venat’s sapphire gaze held no remorse, but instead great compassion, sword and shield in her hands held up in defense, not aggression. And behind them, the small, slim form of the familiar waited on tip-toe, lavender-edged eyes pained at the edges, chakrams held loosely within her hands, ready to fly at a moment’s notice. None of them were happy to be there in that moment, but all of them were ready to fight for the star below them.

So why check? Why not checkmate- ah. Of course. They had also seen its reserve gambit.

Muttering at having its hand forced, it slid its rook across the board, exchanging places with its king. It left the rook open to being taken - a sacrifice of the pawn, which would be swiftly overrun by one of its other minions, but worth the cost.

Hermes’ arm flung out as he forced himself to his feet, facing the four who would dare to stand against him in his own domain. “Go, Meteion. To the edge of the universe, where none can reach you.” Venat took a step forward, her eyes flashing. “This ends here!” Moving to intercept her, Hermes raised his voice in urgency. “Fly, Meteion!” Eyes bulging in outrage, Emet-Selch thrust forth his hand. “That is far enough, Hermes!”  As he distracted Hermes from Venat, the woman rushed towards the edge of the platform, calling, “Argos, to me!” As she leapt into the air, her golden familiar caught her and they sped after the fleeing bird.

A quick check of the board heartened it; unless its partner wildly altered their methods, it would still win within a few more moves, storming across the board and easily devouring those few white units that remained. “You will not win.”

They sighed as they surveyed the board. “Not this time,” they conceded, their voice a mingling of masculine and feminine tones, a two-toned bell that chimed with sorrow.

“Almost…” But her effort was not enough. “Very well, then. You may elude us this day, but not forever!” Flinging forth her hand, she cast a spell which struck the bird, merging with it. Then, heart heavy with regret, Venat turned Argos and urged him to return to her struggling comrades. Below, Hythlodaeus sighed. “Meteion's gotten away…” he warned his two remaining companions.

“Not this time, nor any time, as long as you continue to play with a soft heart,” it retorted. “You refuse to sacrifice the expendable, so you lose that which you can least afford to lose.”

They stroked a finger over the battered pawn before withdrawing their hand and gently laying their king upon its side, signaling the end of the match. “Perhaps, but what use is there in winning if you have lost everything?”

It grinned, a brief gaping of the swirls and eddies to reveal a mouth of pitch black and shimmering silver teeth, sharp and lethal. “If you win, you have not lost everything.”

They frowned, studying the board, then exhaled. “Again.”

“Again, again, again, no matter how many agains, you will lose. You will always lose. You are too soft.”

Their frown grew fiercer - then they snapped, and in that single crack of sound, the universe around them shivered. One board became fourteen. “A wager, then.” No longer was her voice two-toned, but proud and rich and quintessentially female.

They are my meaning and my purpose. My love. In spite of...or perhaps because of this, I choose to believe. In mankind's potential. In his ability to find a way forward. So let there be no way back. From that temptation I sunder us. No more shall man have wings to bear him to paradise. Henceforth, he shall walk.

It looked interested. “Since when have you engaged in wagers?” She waited in silence. “A wager, then,” it agreed.

She looked satisfied. “You have won this world, but now what was one is now fourteen. So we will play for each shattered shard. If you win, you win the board. If we draw, we play again. But if I win, it ends. The worlds remain as they are at that moment, and we move on. Leave them to live their lives, without interference from either of us.”

“And if I win all fourteen?”

She gazed upon that clouded form. “Then I will contest you no more for possession of this star; it shall be yours, whole, in perpetuity to with as you please. And I will move on.”

Again, that gape-maw grin, with those shining, sharp, silvery teeth glistening in the faint illumination that swirled around them. “A deal is struck, a bargain is made.”

She hid her anxiety behind a serene smile. “A deal is struck, a bargain is made.” She gazed down at the board between them, the last of the thirteen copies. Quietly, she stroked that single battered pawn, alone amidst a sea of white pieces that shone bright and new.

“Will you not replace that one?” it asked curiously.

“No,” she said, and withdrew her hand. “There is no need. As long as it remains, there is always hope.”

It shook its head. “Foolish to pin one’s hopes on a single piece. But if that is your desire.” Once more, that void-shriven grin. “Shall we play a game?”

FFXIVWrite2023 Day #13: Check

OCs: Kal'istae Miurani (Familiar)

NPCs: Hydaelyn, Zodiark, Venat, Emet-Selch, Hythlodaeus, Hades, Meteion

AU: No AU

[ -- Master Post: FFXIVWrite2023 -- ]

[mdabutaleb]

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[borismann]

Bluesky #ATProtocol uses domain names as user handles. Parker Higgins did a great write up that mostly focuses on the possibilities of what using domains can enable.

“Verification by HTML reflects a web-first mindset, verification by DNS reflects a net-first mindset.”

[nothorses]

I ran into a FB marketplace scam the other day: the account was from 2009, so even though I couldn't see any of his info, I assumed it was probably a real person.

He contacted me about a table I had listed for sale, asked how long I'd had it, then told me he was out of town for business but his brother would pick it up later that day, and what was my address? I said I'd send it when I knew when he was on his way, and gave him my approx location instead. That didn't bother him; all seemed well.

Then he said he would pay me online (still makes sense: most FB marketplace sales are cash lately, but if someone else is picking it up for him, this tracks) and asked for my Zell or Paypal (options: also feels legit). I gave him my phone number for Zelle. He said Zelle wanted my email to confirm, since this was his first time sending money to me.

This is weird. To my knowledge, Zelle won't ask for confirmation of someone's identity via email: you can have your phone number and email registered to two separate accounts. I thought this was kinda weird, but not enough that it fazed me, and I went with it.

I got an email "from Zelle" saying he'd tried to send me the amount I requested for the table, but my account limit was too low because it wasn't a business account. I need to get the guy to send me another $400 "to verify".

Weird. Guy says he got a similar error message, and he's had this problem before because his Zelle is a business account. If I call the support number in the email, they can resolve it.

I call. They say yeah, no problem, we just need him to send you $400 so we can verify and raise the limit on your account for this transaction. We know that sounds kinda sketchy to some people, so we're going to call him and explain it to him as well.

While this is happening I'm googling the "Zelle support" phone number from the email, and can't get anything (because all of the phone number verification services at the top of the search results are all paywalled scams themselves). "Zelle support" says they have him on the phone, and the guy DMs me to say he's sending the $400. I get another email "from Zelle".

Finally I google the "Zelle support" email, which is, very suspiciously, an @gmail.com address. This is super weird; why wouldn't Zelle have their own domain name? Finally I get a bunch of results saying yes, this is a scam, and outlining basically this exact scenario and how it works. I hang up, tell the guy that I know it's a scam (and if it isn't, somehow, he can call Zelle support himself- and/or his bank- and get the money sent back), report him to FB, and block him before he can send me anything else.

I share all of this because I'm usually pretty privvy to scams, but this one got super far with me before I finally clocked it. There's a lot of shit people can do to get around common knowledge about how to identify scams, but imo, the best and most reliable way to identify a scam is the one I should have done way before calling that number: googling phone numbers and email addresses.

It doesn't take a lot of time, it's easy to remember to do it for just about any new contact you make with a number or address, and there aren't a lot of ways to fuck it up. We can't learn every single scam that exists, but contact info for real, actual businesses and organizations is a lot harder to fake.

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How to Segment Your Email List for Better Conversions with the Best Email Marketing Platform in USA

Imagine this: a business owner who knows every customer by name, understands their preferences, and always has the perfect recommendation waiting for them. This personal touch makes customers feel valued, and as a result, they’re far more likely to make a purchase. Now, think about applying that same level of personalization to your email marketing. With segmented email lists, you can do just that — providing highly targeted content that resonates with each group on your list. And the results speak for themselves: segmented campaigns can lead to a 14.31% higher open rate and a 100.95% higher click-through rate, according to Mailchimp.

So, how do you make sure you’re reaching the right people with the right message? The answer lies in email segmentation. Let’s break it down and explore why it matters, how you can do it, and the tools that make it all easier.

Why Segmentation Matters

Segmentation allows you to break your email list into smaller, more focused groups. This means you can tailor your content to the specific interests, needs, and behaviors of each segment, making your emails more relevant and engaging. When your emails feel personal and targeted, engagement skyrockets, and your conversion rates will follow.

Key Benefits of Email Segmentation:

Increased Open Rates: Personalized subject lines can increase open rates by 50% (and we know that first impressions matter).

Higher Click-Through Rates: Targeted emails can give you a 100.95% boost in click-through rates, leading to more meaningful interactions.

Improved Customer Retention: Segmentation helps improve customer retention and can reduce unsubscribe rates by sending the right message at the right time.

Effective Segmentation Strategies

Demographic Segmentation Group your list based on details like job title, location, age, and gender. For example, a cold email automation software provider in the USA might send different messages to small business owners in New York versus tech entrepreneurs in California.

Behavioral Segmentation Look at past behavior: purchases, website activity, email interactions, etc. If someone has already bought a product from you, send them emails about related products. This keeps them engaged and drives more sales.

Psychographic Segmentation Target groups based on values, lifestyle, and interests. Knowing what your customers care about helps you create more meaningful, engaging content that speaks to their needs.

Tools to Enhance Your Segmentation

To get the most out of your email campaigns, you’ll need the right tools to optimize your efforts.

Email Verification Tools: Use email verification tools to ensure your list is clean, accurate, and up-to-date. This reduces bounce rates and improves deliverability.

Cold Email Automation: Leverage cold email automation software like Sendcrux to create personalized email sequences at scale, targeting your segmented lists with ease.

SMTP for Cold Email: Use a reliable SMTP for cold email to ensure your messages land in your recipients’ inboxes and not the spam folder.

Email Rotation: Implement email rotation to distribute your email traffic evenly and avoid being flagged as spam. This tactic uses different email addresses and IPs to keep your deliverability rates high.

Advanced Segmentation Techniques

Domain and IP Warmup: Warm up your domain and IP to avoid deliverability issues. This gradual process helps ensure that your emails are more likely to reach your customers without being flagged as spam.

Dedicated IP: For better control over your email reputation, use a dedicated IP for your cold email campaigns. This increases trust with email providers and boosts deliverability.

Crafting Compelling Subject Lines: Remember, the subject line is your first impression. Personalize it! Personalized subject lines can increase open rates by 26%, so make sure your message grabs attention from the get-go.

Conclusion

Segmentation is a game-changer for your email marketing strategy. By personalizing your content to meet the unique needs of each group within your audience, you’ll see higher engagement, more conversions, and a stronger connection with your customers. To take things further, consider leveraging tools like Sendcrux, cold email automation software, and SMTP for cold email to optimize your efforts. And if you’re ready to elevate your strategy even more, working with the best cold email marketing agency in the USA can help you maximize the potential of your segmented campaigns.

So, are you ready to take your email marketing to the next level? Let’s make sure you’re using the best email marketing platform to reach your goals and drive results.

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How to Set Up Cross-Domain Tracking in Google Ads Using GTM

In today’s multi-platform digital landscape, tracking user activity across domains is crucial to understanding the full customer journey. For PPC campaigns, especially those managed by a PPC Marketing Agency in Pune, cross-domain tracking allows marketers to track conversions that span multiple websites or subdomains. This blog will walk you through the essential steps to set up Google Ads cross-domain tracking with Google Tag Manager (GTM) and ensure data flows smoothly into Google Analytics.

Why Cross-Domain Tracking Matters

Setting up cross-domain tracking with GTM provides several benefits:

Accurate Attribution: Track conversions across domains, ensuring no drop-off in data.

Enhanced User Journey Insights: Understand customer behavior across all web properties.

Better ROI on Ad Spend: See the impact of your PPC campaigns more accurately and optimize accordingly.

Step 1: Verify GTM Setup on All Domains

Before you start, verify that Google Tag Manager (GTM) is installed and working on all domains. Cross-domain tracking will only work if GTM is properly configured on each of the sites you wish to track. Use Google Tag Assistant or GTM’s built-in preview mode to check if tags are firing correctly.

Step 2: Configure Cross-Domain Tracking in GTM

Next, go to your Google Tag Manager dashboard. In GTM, you’ll need to adjust the Google Analytics settings variable to enable cross-domain tracking:

Select Google Analytics Settings Variable: Go to “Variables” in GTM, find or create your Google Analytics settings variable.

Add Domains to Auto-Link Domains: Under More Settings, locate Cross Domain Tracking. Here, enter all the domains you wish to track, separating each with a comma. For example: domain1.com, domain2.com.

Enable Allow Linker: Check the box next to Allow Linker. This will ensure that Google Analytics can track user sessions across domains by appending tracking information to URLs.

Step 3: Modify Linker Tag for Google Ads

For seamless Google Ads and GTM integration, a linker tag is required to ensure tracking persists as users navigate between domains:

Create a New Tag in GTM: Go to “Tags” and click on “New.”

Select Google Analytics — Universal Analytics: Choose this as the tag type, then set “Track Type” to Page View.

Enable Cross-Domain Tracking: Under “More Settings,” enable Cross-Domain Tracking and add the necessary domains to the Auto Link Domains field.

Add Triggers: Set the trigger to All Pages to ensure that tracking works across all pages within the specified domains.

Step 4: Update Links on Both Domains

To ensure conversion tracking across domains works, you’ll need to update links between the domains to include the linker parameter. GTM can automatically add these to links if you set it up correctly, but double-checking is a best practice.

Go to Advanced Settings in your tag configuration and enable Decorate Forms and Decorate Links.

Test all links manually to verify that the Google Analytics client ID is passed between domains as expected.

Step 5: Set Up Conversion Tracking in Google Ads

Finally, configure Google Ads cross-domain tracking by creating a Google Ads conversion action:

In your Google Ads account, go to Tools & Settings > Conversions.

Click on “New Conversion Action” and select “Website.”

Set up the conversion parameters, including the conversion name, value, and category, then follow the instructions to set up the conversion tag in GTM.

Ensure the conversion tracking tag is properly firing on both domains by using Google Tag Assistant.

Step 6: Test and Verify Cross-Domain Tracking

Once your setup is complete, verify that tracking is working across all domains. Use Google Analytics cross-domain setup verification techniques, such as checking user session continuity and goal tracking:

Enable Preview Mode in GTM and test all domains to confirm the setup.

Check Google Analytics to ensure that session IDs and user paths remain consistent when users navigate between domains.

Run a few test conversions to ensure that conversion tracking across domains is recording accurately in Google Ads.

Troubleshooting Common Cross-Domain Tracking Issues

If your tracking data appears incomplete or incorrect, here are some troubleshooting tips:

Check Allow Linker: Ensure that Allow Linker is enabled for both Google Analytics settings and individual link clicks.

Verify Domain Names: Ensure all domains in your Auto Link Domains field are correctly typed.

Session Continuity: Use Google Analytics Real-Time reports to verify that sessions are retained across domains.

By setting up cross-domain tracking with GTM correctly, your PPC Marketing Agency in Pune can gain a complete view of user behavior, helping your clients make informed decisions on their ad spend. Cross-domain tracking is not only a best practice but also a necessary step for accurately measuring Google Ads and GTM integration.

Final Thoughts

Cross-domain tracking can seem complex, but the benefits for PPC marketers are invaluable. By following these steps, you’ll ensure that your Google Ads cross-domain tracking is set up correctly, providing better insights into customer journeys and improved conversion tracking across domains.

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Background Check Investigation | Venus Detective Agency

With new hires or when entering new business partnerships, one needs to be very sure about the information that is provided. In this regard, at Venus Detective Agency, we have wellbuilt expertise in background check investigations domains across cities such as Delhi, Gurgaon, Noida, Hyderabad, Mumbai, and Bangalore. With our expert investigation team, you get thorough and reliable services for making very informed decisions.

Background Check Investigation Though the name may sound complex, a background check investigation simply refers to the gathering of information relating to the MOM's past; it includes criminal history, employment history, educational qualifications, financial status, and much more. This means that it seeks to verify the authenticity of given information on a particular person and find out if there's any hidden information that is important in any case.

 Why You Need a Background Check Investigation

1. Verify Employment: The future employer will need to confirm whether one has the qualifications or experience he indicated in his resume or in the application form. These background checks can reveal the inconsistencies and reduce the risk of hiring.

2. Business Partners: In entering into business partnerships, you have to be sure of the background of your potential partner to avoid financial and legal problems later on.

3. Tenant Screening: Landlords can use the background check to ensure that the prospective tenant has a credible rental history and no criminal background so that their property is safe and secure.

4. Personal Relationships: In personal matters, such as marriage or close associations, background checks can reveal important information about the individual's past which can enable you to make better decisions.

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 Employment History Verification

We check the work experience an individual has claimed against his actual employment record. This includes previous employers, job title, and reasons for leaving.

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The educational qualifications of an individual are verified to ascertain his/her genuine academic credentials. This can include verification of the degree/certification and the institution where it was obtained from.

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A person's financial status is checked with hidden debts, bankruptcies, or mismanagement of positions having a finance related responsibility associated with such persons.

 Reference Checks

We verify the character and capabilities of candidate individuals through reference checks. This may be done by contacting references and obtaining feedback in an unbiased way.

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We scan social media and the internet presence of individuals to maintain additional information about a person's behavior, network, and activities.

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Citizens of Delhi can thus rely on our comprehensive background check services. Our highly experienced investigation team applies the most advanced techniques for gathering information that is accurate and reliable.

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Our Background Check Service in Hyderabad focuses on providing the best Background Screening Services by using advanced tools and techniques in unearthing hidden details.

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Our team in Bangalore undertakes professional, detailed background check services so that you have confidence and an informed decision.

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We provide comprehensive reports detailing every finding in the course of our investigation, which can then be parlayed into employment, business, or personal decisions provided.

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